Embodiments of Power

Gary B. Cohen is director of the Center for Austrian Studies and professor of history at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He teaches modern Central European social and political history and has published numerous articles and essays as well as two books in these areas.

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionGary B. Cohen and Franz A. J. SzaboChapter 1. Embodiments of Power? Baroque architecture in the former Habsburg Residences of Graz and InnsbruckMark HengererChapter 2. Baroque Comes for the Archbishops: Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, Johann Ernst Count Thun and Their Ideals of 'Modern Art' and ArchitectureRoswitha JuffingerChapter 3. Religious Art and the Formation of a Catholic Identity in Baroque PragueHoward LouthanChapter 4. Prague, Wroclaw and Vienna: Center and Periphery in Transformations of Baroque Culture?Jiri PesekChapter 5. Representation of the Court and Burghers in the Baroque Cities of the High Road: Krakow, Wrocław and Dresden in a Historical ComparisonJan HarasimowiczChapter 6. From Protestant Fortress to Baroque Apotheosis: Dresden from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth CenturyBarbara MarxChapter 7. A Tale of Two Cities: Nuremberg and MunichJeffrey Chipps SmithChapter 8. Searching for the New Constantine: Early Modern Rome as a Spanish Imperial CityThomas DandeletChapter 9. The Zodiac in the Streets: Inscribing Buon Governo in Baroque NaplesJohn A. MarinoChapter 10. A Setting for Royal Authority: The Reshaping of Madrid, Sixteenth/Eighteenth CenturiesDavid RingroseNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

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